The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-21
Popular Science.

The stems and waste of tobacco are said
to be as good as linen rags in the manufac-
ture of paper.
In Europe thrifty trees and good crops of
peaches have been secured from CRAFTS on
the hawthorn.
Highly polished brass may be kept abso-
lutely bright and free from tarnish by thinly
coating the articles with a varnish of
bleached sheIlac ard alcohol.
The beautiful enameled bricks frequently
used for outside or interior decoration are
made by applying to the surface a colored
flux, which during the burning causes the
slick to melt and form a vitreous covering.
Very pretty effect may be produced by the
use of these bricks.
One of the cheapest and best modes of de-
stroying insects in pot plants is to invert
the pot and dip the plants for few seconds
IN water warmed TO 1907. A German paper,
referring to this plan says that the azalea
will stand 1902 without injury. Usually
heat the water pretty well and pour in cool
until 1907 is reached.
The Locomotive recently published cuts
made from photographs of sections of boil
ers which had been very badly corroded by
water contaminated by sewage, such as
the lakage of privy vaults, etc. The cor
rosion is of bad and dangerous character,
and shows that it is necessary to see that
such impure water is not allowed to enter
boilers
A new method of extracting sugar from
molasses has recently been proposed by
using wood spirits or methylic alcohol,
which has the property of completely dis
solving molasses or syrup. Sugar and salts
may be separated as oxalates, while the
organic acids and nitric substances remain
in the solution. There is much additional
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is very infiammable,
The american Machinist gives the fol-
lowing az q cure for 'chapped hands
Wash the hands with fine soap, and be-
fore removing the soap scrub the hands with
a tablespoonful of Indian meal, rinsing
thoroughly with soft tepid water, using a
little meal each time except the last: wire
the hands perfectly dry, then rinse them in
a very little water containing teaspoonful
of pure glvcerine, rubbing the hands to-
gether until the water has evaporated The
glycerine must be pure or it Will irritate in
stead of healing"
TO make Il cheap, simple and efficient but
terry, suitable for the Use of experiments
and amateurs, take an ordinary glass fruit
Jar. fitted with a cover OF wood or hard rub
ber and place in it number of pieces of
electric light carbons, hundreds of which
can be picked up in the streets every morn
ing after the lamps have been trimmed The
connection between the carbons and the
binding-screw on etop of the cover is best
made NTH gutta -pcrcha-covered wire, hay
ing its lower end barred and wound tightly
round and secured to one of the carbons.
thus making a connection with all other
pieces in contact with it, piece of al
magamated zinc of any connection size or
form is suspended within the jar from the
wooden cover, and has bindng-screw at
tached TO it, The jar should be filled about
two-thirds full with dilute Sulphuric acid
or other suitable solution. The whole bat
terry complete can be made for 20c and it
viii give good current on closed circuit
for long time.
According to the stat sment of Mr.. Miles,
a well-known engineer, II is fact peculiar
TO Spanish countries that ordinary back
dust, made from hard-burned, finely pul-
verified bricks, and mixed with common
lime and sand, is universally and success.
fully employed as a substitute for hydraulic
cement. Mr.. Miles says that during an
engineering experience of some six years in
Cuba MS opportunities were ample for test
ing its merits and he found il in all respects
superior TO the best Rosenlale hydraulic
cement for culverts, drains, tanks and
cisterns. and even for roofs. In an expert
ment to test the strength OF this product it
was found that block Of it Is inch in thick
ness, without sand, and after an immersion
in water for four months bore, without
crushing. crumbling or splitting pressure
of fifteen pounds per square inch. 10 is
Thought thdt bv the addition of pulverizing
mills to brick yards, 10 utilize the waste aud
broken bricks, profitable manufacture
might be carried on.